Eddie Murphy is interviewed at the premiere of the film "Candy Cane Lane" at the Regency Village Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. Eddie Murphy said he’s been the target of “cheap shots” over the years -- including a “racist” joke that David Spade told on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” where Murphy had once been a cast member.
“And all the people that have been on that show, you’ve never heard nobody make no joke about anybody’s career. Most people that get off that show, they don’t go on and have these amazing careers. It was personal. It was like, ‘Yo, how could you do that?’ My career? Really? A joke about my career? So I thought that was a cheap shot. And it was kind of, I thought -- I felt it was racist.”
In the Times interview, Murphy also recalled the press being “relentless on me, and a lot of it was racist stuff” in the 1980s.
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